"NASA is working on... the rocket expected to launch the [Mars] mission -- the Space Launch System"
My plan:
1. Kill the Senate Launch System and bury it in a landfill 2. Fire everyone who thought it was a good idea 3. Wait around a few years and play Kerbal Space Program 4. Buy a ride on Falcon Heavy R and save a billion bucks per launch 5. Now you can afford to haul more stuff to Mars for a city
Thank you, I'll take the $5000 in cashier's check, Visa or Mastercard.... but definitely NOT American Express.
That's an understatement. If everything goes according to Elon's plan, we might have weekly or even daily Dragon launches in the future. Calling the US Navy and having them send out aircraft carriers every day to retrieve capsules from the Pacific would get pretty expensive!
Having the capsule return to the launch site and land with precision is gonna be a big money-saver.
Attach this to your wrist, and the machine will be powered off when the USB drive is removed from its port.
You mean attach a cord to the USB thumb drive, tie the other end to your wrist, and insert the thumb drive into your computer before using it?
Seems like a hassle. The cord would have to be pretty short for this to work. It might be ok for temporary sessions on a laptop at the public library, but not for daily use with your home desktop (which is likely not on your desk but on the floor).
Someone should make a wireless version. Using a USB wireless mouse with those little snub receivers you plug into the USB port could work.
You leave the snub plugged into the computer. When the mouse is turned on, USB state changes and you have a live USB human interface. Then you type in your disk encryption key and use the computer. If the mouse is turned off OR if the mouse goes out of range of the receiver, USB state changes and computer shuts down. Now you just need to pull the guts out of the mouse and put it on a fashionable wristband or whatever.
See, this is why climate change is still such a contentious topic. You sound exactly like a religious fanatic. Anyone who does not agree with you is stupid (you said it four times in your two-sentence post). They are denialists. What you really mean is, they are heretics.
People like you living in an echo chamber might not hear this, but there are reasonable, non-Republican, not paid by Big Oil, non-stupid people out there who harbor some level of skepticism for various reasons. Not the least of which is the religious fervor with which Climate Change (nee Global Warming) believers attack their opponents.
For me personally, it was the history revision, deleting of hundreds of mentions of Medieval Warm period off of Wikipedia by climate crusaders. And the attempts to dismiss other historical records as garbage ramblings of primitive people. The Romans and the medieval monks and the Renaissance people were all stupid, right, because they didn't live in the enlightened age of computer models?
So you have to think in absolutes? Either (education = intelligence) or (education != intelligence) ?
Statistics will bear this out, but simple common sense says more intelligent people will tend to be better educated. People with 80 IQ do not spend 8 years and a hundred thousand dollars trying to obtain a PhD. There is a correlation. Of course there will be degrees and exceptions.
Direct IQ tests are even better correlated with intelligence than education level. But even that is not an absolute.
The holocene, our current interglacial, is ~12000 years old. During that time the climate has both been a lot warmer (the Holocene optimum) as well as a lot colder (the Little Ice Age) than now.
Denialist propaganda funded by Big Oil. Scientists have proven that those events were mere anecdotes recited by primitive tribesmen and never actually happened. The overwhelming consensus is that due to manmade climate change, it's hotter right now than anywhere anytime in the history of the universe.
I live in California and get my internet from Verizon.
Apparently the guy from TFA streaming 10 copies of Game of Thrones was not an American then? I didn't know Verizon provided broadband service outside of the USA.
I was born in East-Germany, where people did a pacific revolution to free themselves from a dictatorship.
Small vocabulary lesson: although in theory the word pacific and peaceful mean the same thing, in reality English speakers would not use the word pacific in that way. Because if you say pacific, people think you're talking about the big ocean. So you'd wanna say peaceful revolution or bloodless revolution. Hope this helped;)
The poster is talking about a couple of GB, so surely an SD card encrypted if needed and kept in his wallet or car is all that is required.
This is better than any of the harebrained schemes proposed so far.
However if we're gonna go down the encryption route, why not just encrypt the file and upload it to multiple web hosts? SD cards in car and wallet are still subject to loss/theft/degradation, plus if the police ever get a hold of it you may become inconvenienced (because the authorities are convinced that encryption means you're a criminal with something to hide).
Lucas isn't writing the screenplay anymore. You're all safe.
"Anakin, make love to me like you did by the lake on planet Wumpumpsefukit!" (or whatever the hell the actual line from Episode 2 was)
With lines like that, no wonder a world-class actress like Natalie Portman ended up looking like a wooden talentless hack. But actually the only talentless hack here was Lucas.
Well ok that's a bit harsh. Lucas has talent but not when it comes to writing dialogue that doesn't completely suck ass.
What, the waterproof lightweight ones that take up less room in my wallet (which I'm already carrying) than a bunch of other items (including cards that lack payment functionality)?
In return I just need to carry a ã500 device, keep it charged, keep it dry, avoid physical impact and not break it?
Dumb argument. People who use Apple Pay were already carrying their iphones around. Nobody is expecting someone who had no desire to own an iphone to suddenly start carrying one just to use Apple Pay. And yes, having one less card to carry around is a bonus.
4) It eliminates magnetic swiping.
Nah, don't do that here.
5) It eliminates signing.
Nah, don't do that here.
6) It eliminates showing driver's licenses.
Nah, don't do that here.
7) It eliminates entering zip codes.
Nah, don't do that here.
Yeah, some people have to do all of those.
Your problem seems to be that you are utterly unable to comprehend another person's point of view. You don't have to deal with x, therefore x must be a non-issue.
So wait? I have to unlock the phone? And that's somehow quicker or easier than entering a PIN? Ok.
Yes, it's both quicker and easier than entering a PIN for most people. Compare 5 or more strokes on a keypad vs. placing your thumb on the Home button. And it's less error-prone (you may be a world-class keyboard cruncher with 100% accuracy, but many people are not and sometimes they hit the wrong key while entering a PIN and have to start over again)
Scientology, Amway, and Herbalife are still going strong and earning big $$$ for their founders. Government doesn't seem to care one way or the other. Why shouldn't the guy who dreamed up Mars One get a piece of the action?
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whoever thought running scripts from random sites and ads was a good idea?
"NASA is working on... the rocket expected to launch the [Mars] mission -- the Space Launch System"
My plan:
1. Kill the Senate Launch System and bury it in a landfill
2. Fire everyone who thought it was a good idea
3. Wait around a few years and play Kerbal Space Program
4. Buy a ride on Falcon Heavy R and save a billion bucks per launch
5. Now you can afford to haul more stuff to Mars for a city
Thank you, I'll take the $5000 in cashier's check, Visa or Mastercard.... but definitely NOT American Express.
So their abort system isn't a total waste.
That's an understatement. If everything goes according to Elon's plan, we might have weekly or even daily Dragon launches in the future. Calling the US Navy and having them send out aircraft carriers every day to retrieve capsules from the Pacific would get pretty expensive!
Having the capsule return to the launch site and land with precision is gonna be a big money-saver.
In almost 300 manned space launches a Launch Escape system has only been of verifiable use in a single incident(Soyuz T-10-1).
If Shuttle had a launch escape system, it would've been used at least once (Challenger) with 7 lives being saved.
Attach this to your wrist, and the machine will be powered off when the USB drive is removed from its port.
You mean attach a cord to the USB thumb drive, tie the other end to your wrist, and insert the thumb drive into your computer before using it?
Seems like a hassle. The cord would have to be pretty short for this to work. It might be ok for temporary sessions on a laptop at the public library, but not for daily use with your home desktop (which is likely not on your desk but on the floor).
Someone should make a wireless version. Using a USB wireless mouse with those little snub receivers you plug into the USB port could work.
You leave the snub plugged into the computer. When the mouse is turned on, USB state changes and you have a live USB human interface. Then you type in your disk encryption key and use the computer. If the mouse is turned off OR if the mouse goes out of range of the receiver, USB state changes and computer shuts down. Now you just need to pull the guts out of the mouse and put it on a fashionable wristband or whatever.
See, this is why climate change is still such a contentious topic. You sound exactly like a religious fanatic. Anyone who does not agree with you is stupid (you said it four times in your two-sentence post). They are denialists. What you really mean is, they are heretics.
People like you living in an echo chamber might not hear this, but there are reasonable, non-Republican, not paid by Big Oil, non-stupid people out there who harbor some level of skepticism for various reasons. Not the least of which is the religious fervor with which Climate Change (nee Global Warming) believers attack their opponents.
For me personally, it was the history revision, deleting of hundreds of mentions of Medieval Warm period off of Wikipedia by climate crusaders. And the attempts to dismiss other historical records as garbage ramblings of primitive people. The Romans and the medieval monks and the Renaissance people were all stupid, right, because they didn't live in the enlightened age of computer models?
So you have to think in absolutes? Either (education = intelligence) or (education != intelligence) ?
Statistics will bear this out, but simple common sense says more intelligent people will tend to be better educated. People with 80 IQ do not spend 8 years and a hundred thousand dollars trying to obtain a PhD. There is a correlation. Of course there will be degrees and exceptions.
Direct IQ tests are even better correlated with intelligence than education level. But even that is not an absolute.
Maybe it's not new physics, but old physics. Would the universal aether from ~18th century explain this phenomenon?
in a small asteroid, live in that. Asteroid dirt should be good shielding material.
Too farfetched? I think so too, but people were talking about capturing an asteroid and bringing into lunar (or earth) orbit and mining it...
it must suck to be you. I on the other hand use Firefox with Adblock, and reading the article right now with no ads bothering me.
The holocene, our current interglacial, is ~12000 years old. During that time the climate has both been a lot warmer (the Holocene optimum) as well as a lot colder (the Little Ice Age) than now.
Denialist propaganda funded by Big Oil. Scientists have proven that those events were mere anecdotes recited by primitive tribesmen and never actually happened. The overwhelming consensus is that due to manmade climate change, it's hotter right now than anywhere anytime in the history of the universe.
they're probably talking about wanting to run Android/iOS apps on Windows 10 phones.
I live in California and get my internet from Verizon.
Apparently the guy from TFA streaming 10 copies of Game of Thrones was not an American then? I didn't know Verizon provided broadband service outside of the USA.
I have Netflix and there is no streaming option, only DVD discs.
I was born in East-Germany, where people did a pacific revolution to free themselves from a dictatorship.
Small vocabulary lesson: although in theory the word pacific and peaceful mean the same thing, in reality English speakers would not use the word pacific in that way. Because if you say pacific, people think you're talking about the big ocean. So you'd wanna say peaceful revolution or bloodless revolution. Hope this helped ;)
The poster is talking about a couple of GB, so surely an SD card encrypted if needed and kept in his wallet or car is all that is required.
This is better than any of the harebrained schemes proposed so far.
However if we're gonna go down the encryption route, why not just encrypt the file and upload it to multiple web hosts? SD cards in car and wallet are still subject to loss/theft/degradation, plus if the police ever get a hold of it you may become inconvenienced (because the authorities are convinced that encryption means you're a criminal with something to hide).
there's already an app for that.
You can't find it in Apple or Google stores, though. That would kind of defeat the purpose.
Lucas isn't writing the screenplay anymore. You're all safe.
"Anakin, make love to me like you did by the lake on planet Wumpumpsefukit!" (or whatever the hell the actual line from Episode 2 was)
With lines like that, no wonder a world-class actress like Natalie Portman ended up looking like a wooden talentless hack. But actually the only talentless hack here was Lucas.
Well ok that's a bit harsh. Lucas has talent but not when it comes to writing dialogue that doesn't completely suck ass.
Developers are more in demand than mere programmers.
Notice how Ballmer never says,
Programmers
programmers programmers
programmers, programmers, programmers, programmers, programmers, programmers, PROGRAMMERS!
Javascript, motherfucker! Do you run it?
except in this case it's not so plausible.
On the other hand NSA denying it created Stuxnet isn't all that plausible either.
By expanding space behind the Enterprise and contracting the space in front of it?
What, the waterproof lightweight ones that take up less room in my wallet (which I'm already carrying) than a bunch of other items (including cards that lack payment functionality)?
In return I just need to carry a ã500 device, keep it charged, keep it dry, avoid physical impact and not break it?
Dumb argument. People who use Apple Pay were already carrying their iphones around. Nobody is expecting someone who had no desire to own an iphone to suddenly start carrying one just to use Apple Pay. And yes, having one less card to carry around is a bonus.
4) It eliminates magnetic swiping.
Nah, don't do that here.
5) It eliminates signing.
Nah, don't do that here.
6) It eliminates showing driver's licenses.
Nah, don't do that here.
7) It eliminates entering zip codes.
Nah, don't do that here.
Yeah, some people have to do all of those.
Your problem seems to be that you are utterly unable to comprehend another person's point of view. You don't have to deal with x, therefore x must be a non-issue.
So wait? I have to unlock the phone? And that's somehow quicker or easier than entering a PIN? Ok.
Yes, it's both quicker and easier than entering a PIN for most people. Compare 5 or more strokes on a keypad vs. placing your thumb on the Home button. And it's less error-prone (you may be a world-class keyboard cruncher with 100% accuracy, but many people are not and sometimes they hit the wrong key while entering a PIN and have to start over again)
Scientology, Amway, and Herbalife are still going strong and earning big $$$ for their founders. Government doesn't seem to care one way or the other. Why shouldn't the guy who dreamed up Mars One get a piece of the action?
"Apple could be working on a more powerful tablet, something that could compete with Microsoft's Surface Pro line.
Perhaps because Microsoft sells tens of millions of tablets every quarter while nobody even knows Apple's tablets exist. Oh wait...